oh, and hardly any of the auctioned spectrum has or will in the short term
be used for broadband. It's used for cellular and other services.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hammett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Broadband Baloney? An FCC Commissioner's
takeon"Broadband"..
3 mbit is not fast. The US IS behind other countries, there's no point in
whining about it. Yes, there are very substantial reasons why our numbers
don't look as good as theirs, but there's no need to skew the system to
make us look better... just solve the problem.
Fixed wireless is broadband. WIFI hotspots, cell phones, etc. are not
broadband (maybe the cell broadband cards). The reason our numbers are
climbing is because this has been a problem for some time and we're
working on fixing it. It takes a lot to change things like that for the
third most populous country in the world.
Perhaps it should be measured per household and not per capita, I dunno.
The reason why there's less competition elsewhere is because what is
present is doing a good enough job! Their telcos have delivered 15 meg
DSL for years, while ours don't yet offer it. That's why cable is taking
on so well here. It surely isn't because anything connected to Comcast
has a good price point (DSL and satellite TV are both better values).
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Lentz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:57 AM
Subject: [WISPA] Broadband Baloney? An FCC Commissioner's take
on"Broadband"..
In an article entitled "Broadband Baloney" in the Wall Street Journal
today,
Robert McDowell, a Commissioner on the FCC stated:
"Criticisms of our definition of "broadband" being too lax are already
irrelevant as over 50 million subscribers are in the 1.5 to 3.0
megabits-per-second "fast lane.""
That my friends, is EXACTLY what the problem is: 1.5 to 3mb FAST LANE????
Who are they trying to kid? Then he goes on to say:
"Today, video applications are tugging hard on America's broadband
infrastructure. YouTube alone uses as much bandwidth today as the entire
Internet did in 2000. Not surprisingly, our broadband adoption rate
continues to increase concurrently with the proliferation of this latest
"killer app.""
He talks about how much of a push video is, even citing that it eats up a
large amount of bandwidth, but is insistent on 1.5 to 3 Mb being fast? I
don't get it.
The article sums up why he thinks that all this talk about us lagging
behind
in the broadband proliferation table is "Broadband Baloney".. boo I say.
The
fact that the WSJ would print this is baloney.
Article is here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118524094434875755.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Drew Lentz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
956.878.0123
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